For years, leaders of architectural firms have bemoaned the lack of hand drawing skills among recent graduates and young professionals entering the practice. With a tendency to bypass hand drawing and ...

There’s a lot of talk about CAD software these days, and don’t get us wrong, they’re an essential tool of the trade. But for roughing out an idea, nothing tops paper and a pencil. Even the back of a ...

Although sketching exercises can help students learn many subjects, they are woefully underused in classrooms. “Sketches are difficult and time-consuming to grade,” said Northwestern Engineering’s Ken ...

In March of last year, the mobile design outfit FiftyThree released its first product, a superbly designed sketching app called Paper. It was elegant, intuitive and, in short order, wildly successful, ...

Remember when we spotted that FiftyThree, makers of the iPad sketching app Paper, was working on a stylus? Now it's time for Paper to meet Pencil. Looking like an enormous marker pencil, the unit ...